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UW Leaders in Aerospace Innovation

Engineering faculty participate in ground-breaking research at these and other interdisciplinary research centers.

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Advanced Materials, Composites

Karl F. Böhringer »
Professor, Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering
Director of Micro Electro Mechanical Systems laboratory

Yasuo Kuga »
Professor, Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering
Director of Electromagnetics and Remote Sensing Laboratory

Kuen Lin »
Professor, Aeronautics & Astronautics
Co-director of Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials in Transport Aircraft Structures (AMTAS)

Lih Lin »
Professor, Electrical Engineering
Director of UWEE Photonics Lab

Alex Mamishev »
Professor, Electrical Engineering
Director of Sensors, Energy, and Automation Laboratory (SEAL)

Minoru Taya »
Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering
Director of Center for Intelligent Materials and Systems (CIMS)

Mark Tuttle »
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Director, Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials in Transport Aircraft Structures (AMTAS)

Aerospace Manufacturing Science and Technology

Ramulu Mamidala »
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Boeing-Pennell Professor of Engineering
Director, Manufacturing Science and Technology Laboratory

Per Reinhall »
Professor and Department Chair, Mechanical Engineering
Manufacturing Science and Technology Laboratory

Aerospace Technology Innovation

Mehran Mesbahi »
Professor, Aeronautics & Astronautics
Director, Joint Center for Aerospace Technology Innovation (JCATI)

Air Traffic Management

Santosh Devasia »
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Associate Dean of Research and Faculty Affairs, UW College of Engineering
Air Traffic Control

Mehran Mesbahi »
Professor, Aeronautics & Astronautics
Director of Joint Center for Aerospace Technology Innovation (JCATI)

Zelda B. Zabinsky »
Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering
Air Traffic Management

Aircraft Icing

Michael B. Bragg »
Professor Emeritus, Aeronautics & Astronautics

Airplane Security

Radha Poovendran »
Professor, Electrical Engineering
Network Security Lab

Autonomous Flight Systems and UAVs

Howard Chizeck »
Professor, Electrical Engineering
Co-Director of UW Biorobotics Laboratory

Jenq-Neng Hwang »
Professor, Electrical Engineering
Co-director of Information Processing Lab

Kristi Morgansen »
Professor and Chair, Aeronautics & Astronautics
Principal Investigator of Nonlinear Dynamics and Control Lab

Ming-Ting Sun »
Professor, Electrical Engineering
Co-director of Information Processing Lab

Juris Vagners »
Professor Emeritus, Aeronautics & Astronautics
Autonomous Flight Systems Laboratory

Biofuels

Combustion and Gas Dynamics

Jim Hermanson »
Professor, Aeronautics & Astronautics
Co-PI, Combustion and Gas Dynamics

Communication and Electronics

Sumit Roy »
Professor, Electrical Engineering
Director, Fundamentals of Networking Laboratory

Richard Shi »
Professor, Electrical Engineering
Director, Silicon Systems Research Lab

Joshua R. Smith »
Associate Professor, Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering
Lead, Sensor Systems research group

Fluid Dynamics and Mechanics

Robert Breidenthal »
Professor, Aeronautics & Astronautics
Co-PI, Low Speed Fluid Dynamics & Aerodynamics Lab

Dana Dabiri »
Associate Professor, Aeronautics & Astronautics
Co-PI, Low Speed Fluid Dynamics & Aerodynamics Lab

Antonino Ferrante »
Assistant Professor, Aeronautics & Astronautics
PI, Computational Fluid Mechanics Lab

Nondestructive Damage Detection, Fluorescent Probes

Alex Jen »
Emeritus Professor, Materials Science & Engineering
PI, Jen Research Group

Robotics, Aerospace and Information Networks

Mehran Mesbahi »
Professor, Aeronautics & Astronautics
Director of Joint Center for Aerospace Technology Innovation (JCATI)